One platform to run
the entire grid
- Recover revenue. Loss detection, prepaid tokens, remote disconnect.
- Cut operating cost. No truck rolls, no paper, no cash routes.
- Command everything. Live telemetry from every meter, every 15 minutes.
NB-IoT native · DLMS/COSEM standard · Pilot-ready in 90 days
Built on the rails East Africa already runs on
Three high-growth markets
One generational gap
More than 140 million people across Djibouti, Somalia, and Ethiopia, served by fewer than six million metered connections. Demand is compounding. The commercial layer of the grid is still analog.
people across our three target markets, with demand compounding every year.
metered connections region-wide, the largest unclaimed gap in African utility infrastructure.
of purchased power in Ethiopia is lost before it's ever billed, half of it to theft.
per kWh historically in Somalia, the world's most expensive electrons deserve a smarter grid.
22% of power is lost before it's billed
and the grid can't see any of it
Across East Africa, an analog commercial layer is bleeding revenue and stalling electrification.
Revenue leakage
Up to 22% of purchased power vanishes before it is ever billed, roughly half of it to theft and tampering that surfaces only by accident.
Blind operations
~46 hours of outages every week in Ethiopia alone, discovered by customer phone calls instead of telemetry, dispatched on guesswork.
Manual collections
Cash routes, paper ledgers, and door-to-door collectors, in markets where 70%+ of adults already pay for everything else by mobile money.
Estimated billing
Monthly manual reads produce bills customers don't trust and dispute queues that drain staff, at tariffs up to $0.50/kWh, the world's most expensive power.
Costly truck rolls
Every disconnection, reconnection, and tariff change sends a crew, a vehicle, and a day to do what should be a single remote command.
Generation flying blind
Diesel-solar fleets with the world's highest generation costs are sized and dispatched on intuition, with no load curves and no peak forecasting.
One Platform To Retire
The Paper Grid
Four applications and every capability a connected utility needs, on one live data spine. Replacing spreadsheets, ledgers, cash routes, and truck rolls.
One platform
Three very different grids
A state monopoly, the world's most entrepreneurial private power sector, and a national modernization mandate. The architecture adapts to each without forcing anyone into someone else's operating model.
With ~80% of supply imported and tariffs among Africa's highest, every lost kilowatt-hour is settled in hard currency. A compact urban grid makes this the highest-leverage smart metering economics on the continent.
Transformer telemetry reconciled against interval data localizes leakage and theft to specific zones. Every recovered import dollar is measurable.
15-minute interval reads retire estimated billing. Prepaid tokens and remote disconnect retire the truck roll.
Prepaid metering with D-Money top-ups de-risks every new connection. Collection is engineered in from day one.
Feeder loading, voltage quality, and outage events stream into one command view. Capacity planning graduates from annual studies to daily intelligence.
The world's most entrepreneurial power sector: fully private, diesel-and-solar hybrid, digitally native in payments, yet still running on manual reads and paper ledgers. Purpose-built for our platform.
Loss algorithms flag anomaly zones continuously; tamper events fire instantly; field teams receive GPS-pinned investigation jobs on their phones.
Customers buy power from any phone in seconds. Tokens deliver over the air. Reconciliation is automatic. Cash routes shrink toward zero.
15-minute load curves and peak forecasting let operators right-size generation and orchestrate solar-diesel blends with conviction.
Each operator runs on hard-isolated tenancy: enterprise tooling at per-meter economics, with absolute data separation between competitors.
Africa's second-most-populous nation, adding half a million utility customers a year under a national modernization mandate. The software layer must scale faster than the hardware. That's exactly what we built.
Feeder-by-feeder energy balancing converts a 22% national average into a ranked, actionable list of fixable zones.
Last-gasp meter signals localize outages in real time and auto-dispatch the nearest crew with fault context on their device.
DLMS/COSEM compliance means any procured meter brand connects; cloud-native architecture scales from district pilots to millions of endpoints.
Offline-first installation, instant account creation, and Telebirr / CBE Birr prepaid activation. Every new connection is cash-positive from its first token.
The same dynamics that let mobile money leapfrog banking now apply to the grid itself. NB-IoT rewrites the economics. This is the leapfrog moment, and East Africa is where it happens first.
Let's build the grid
of tomorrow
Every layer of East Africa's energy ecosystem has a seat at this table
Built for every partner
in the power ecosystem
Whether you operate the grid, carry its data, regulate it, or finance it, the Nova Platform is designed to plug into your world and multiply what you already do best.
- Pilot-ready in 90 days, NB-IoT native, DLMS/COSEM standard
- Revenue-share and white-label partnership models
- One discovery call to map the platform onto your reality
Three high-growth markets
One generational gap
More than 140 million people live across Djibouti, Somalia, and Ethiopia, served by fewer than six million metered connections. Demand is compounding, generation is scaling, and yet the commercial layer of the grid remains analog. That gap is the single largest unclaimed opportunity in African utility infrastructure.
people across the three markets, Africa's second-most-populous nation among them.
region-wide today, against compounding demand and national electrification mandates.
added in Ethiopia alone under its rural electrification drive, every year, indefinitely.
adult adoption in Somalia. Payments are already digital. The grid just hasn't caught up.
A single national utility, a compact urban grid, and premium tariffs: the highest-leverage smart metering economics on the continent. With ~80% of supply imported from Ethiopia and purchased in hard currency, every recovered kilowatt-hour pays back in hard currency.
With most supply imported and tariffs among Africa's highest, leakage and commercial loss carry a heavier price here than almost anywhere on the continent.
Meter reading, billing disputes, and disconnections remain labor-intensive and error-prone, driving estimated bills and customer friction.
High connection costs and collection risk keep a third of the population off-grid. Without revenue certainty, expansion stays financially dangerous.
Feeder and transformer load is effectively invisible between site visits. Losses and overloads announce themselves only as failures.
Transformer telemetry reconciled against customer interval data localizes leakage and theft to specific zones, making every recovered import dollar measurable.
15-minute interval reads retire estimated billing. Prepaid tokens, remote disconnect/reconnect, and automated arrears workflows retire the truck roll.
Prepaid metering with D-Money top-ups de-risks every new connection. The utility extends access knowing collection is engineered in from day one.
Feeder loading, voltage quality, and outage events stream into one command view. Capacity planning graduates from annual studies to daily intelligence.
The world's most entrepreneurial power sector: fully private, diesel-and-solar hybrid, and digitally native in payments, yet still operating on manual reads and paper ledgers. Purpose-built for our platform.
Private operators absorb every stolen kilowatt-hour themselves; no state backstop exists. Today, tamper detection means a technician noticing by chance.
Door-to-door collection and manual disconnection are slow, costly, and risky, in a country where most adults already transact digitally every single day.
With generation costs among the world's highest, unbilled load, blind dispatch, and invisible peak demand are luxuries no operator can carry.
Every utility improvises its own spreadsheets and ad-hoc systems. Nothing scales, nothing integrates, and institutional knowledge walks out the door with employees.
Loss algorithms flag anomaly zones continuously; tamper events fire instantly; field teams receive GPS-pinned investigation jobs on their phones.
Customers buy power from any phone in seconds. Tokens deliver over the air. Reconciliation is automatic. Cash routes shrink toward zero.
15-minute load curves and peak forecasting let operators right-size generation, orchestrate solar-diesel blends, and price time-of-use tariffs with conviction.
Each operator runs on hard-isolated tenancy: enterprise-grade tooling at per-meter economics, with absolute data separation between competing utilities.
Africa's second-most-populous nation, adding half a million utility customers a year under a national modernization mandate. The software layer must scale faster than the hardware can ship. That's exactly what we built.
Roughly half technical, half theft and commercial loss, with billions of birr leaking annually from a utility serving millions of accounts.
Earth faults, theft-induced failures, and ageing assets drive relentless interruptions, most detected by customer complaints rather than systems.
A national smart-meter rollout is in motion, but at 5.2 million accounts the software layer must scale faster than the hardware can ship.
Rural electrification mandates compound onboarding, KYC, and field installation load every single year, indefinitely.
Feeder-by-feeder energy balancing converts a 22% national average into a ranked, actionable list of fixable zones, directing maintenance and enforcement with precision.
Last-gasp meter signals localize outages in real time and auto-dispatch the nearest crew, with fault context already on their device.
DLMS/COSEM compliance means any procured meter brand connects; cloud-native architecture scales from district pilots to millions of endpoints without rework.
Offline-first installation, instant account creation, and Telebirr / CBE Birr prepaid activation, making every new connection cash-positive from its first token.
NB-IoT rewrites the
economics of the grid
Narrowband IoT rides the cellular networks already blanketing these markets: penetrating meter boxes, sipping power, and connecting hundreds of thousands of devices per cell at a fraction of legacy AMI cost. The same dynamics that let mobile money leapfrog banking now apply to the grid itself.
Theft becomes mathematics
Interval telemetry and energy-balance analytics surface anomaly zones automatically. No informants, no raids, just signal.
Revenue becomes deterministic
Prepaid tokens, mobile money rails, and remote disconnect close the gap between consumption and collection to near zero.
Operations become predictive
Outage alerts beat the first customer call. Capacity planning runs on live load curves instead of annual studies.
Let's build the grid
of tomorrow
Every layer of East Africa's energy ecosystem has a seat at this table
Built for every partner
in the power ecosystem
Whether you operate the grid, carry its data, regulate it, or finance it, the Nova Platform is designed to plug into your world and multiply what you already do best.
- Pilot-ready in 90 days, NB-IoT native, DLMS/COSEM standard
- Revenue-share and white-label partnership models
- One discovery call to map the platform onto your reality
The operating layer for
the connected utility
A complete NB-IoT smart utility stack: head-end, meter data management, customer operations, field workforce, financial intelligence, and live grid analytics, architected from the first commit for the realities of East African markets.
The full utility stack,
in four applications
Every Nova application runs on the same live meter data and the same unified customer record, so the call center, the technician, finance, and the control room operate from identical reality.
NovaCRM
A fully integrated customer relationship engine for utilities managing thousands of metered accounts. Every interaction, meter record, billing history, and service request, unified in one intelligent interface.
- Full customer account lifecycle: onboarding, KYC, status management
- Real-time meter data linked to every customer account
- Integrated repair and service ticket management
- Payment history, billing records, and arrears tracking
- Multi-channel inquiries (SMS, app, and agent) with role-based access
NovaAgent
A rugged, offline-capable mobile application for installers, technicians, and field agents. Complete field workflow orchestration, with intelligent sync the instant connectivity returns.
- Meter installation, commissioning, and decommissioning workflows
- Offline-capable data capture with automatic background sync
- GPS-tagged field visits, site photos, and digital sign-off
- Repair job creation, assignment, and closure tracking
- Tamper and anomaly reporting directly from the field
NovaFin
The financial nervous system of the Nova Platform. Dynamic tariff configuration, multi-channel reconciliation, and revenue analytics granular enough to price by the zone, the hour, and the customer.
- Dynamic tariff engine: time-of-use, block, and flat rate structures
- Mobile money reconciliation: D-Money, EVC Plus, Telebirr, CBE Birr
- Automated prepaid token generation and over-the-air delivery
- Revenue reporting by zone, tariff class, and customer segment
- Arrears management, collections workflow, and debt ageing reports
NovaGrid
Real-time grid intelligence delivering full topological visibility of the distribution network: load, loss zones, theft anomalies, outages, and transformer analytics refreshed every 15 minutes.
- Live grid load map with feeder and transformer-level data
- Non-technical loss detection: automatic theft-zone identification
- Outage detection and automated alert dispatch to field teams
- Power quality monitoring: voltage, frequency, harmonic distortion
- Remote connect / disconnect for any meter on the network
Engineered for the field,
not the demo
Nine deliberate engineering decisions define the Nova Platform. Each exists because of a hard constraint we've seen in the markets we serve, not a feature checklist written in a boardroom.
Meter agnostic
Standards-based DLMS/COSEM at the core. Any compliant manufacturer connects on day one, so utilities keep procurement leverage permanently.
Enterprise-grade security
End-to-end encryption from meter to cloud, hardened key management, immutable audit trails, and role-based access on every action.
Multi-tenant separation
Hard tenant isolation at the data layer. Each utility's customers, meters, tariffs, and revenue remain architecturally sealed, even between direct competitors.
Native to East Africa
Multi-language by default, local tariff structures, prepaid-first workflows, intermittent-grid tolerance, and alignment with national frameworks.
Native mobile money & USSD
Payments are infrastructure, not integrations. Any customer tops up from any phone. No smartphone, no app, no bank account.
Horizontal scalability
Cloud-native from a 5,000-meter pilot to millions of endpoints. Scale is a configuration change, not a re-platforming project.
Non-technical loss detection
Energy-balance intelligence reconciles what transformers deliver against what meters record, flagging theft zones the moment they emerge.
Over-the-air everything
Firmware, tariffs, prepaid tokens, connect and disconnect, all delivered remotely. Routine operations never roll a truck again.
Offline-first & fallback
Field tools run fully offline and sync the moment coverage returns. Connectivity degrades gracefully from NB-IoT to 4G to 2G. The data never stops.
Everything the paper grid did,
and everything it couldn't
From signal to settlement,
fully automated
The Nova Platform doesn't surface data and wait. Anomalies become field jobs. Outages become GPS-pinned crew assignments. Payments become instant power. Your people focus on judgment calls; the platform handles everything else.
Anomaly detected
Meter 8842's interval signature deviates, flagged within seconds of the event.
Loss zone verified
Energy-balance analytics confirm the gap and score severity automatically.
Crew dispatched
A GPS-pinned job lands on the nearest technician's phone with full site context.
Revenue recovered
−18% losses on Feeder 12 this cycle: measured, logged, and audit-trailed.
Let's build the grid
of tomorrow
Every layer of East Africa's energy ecosystem has a seat at this table
Built for every partner
in the power ecosystem
Whether you operate the grid, carry its data, regulate it, or finance it, the Nova Platform is designed to plug into your world and multiply what you already do best.
- Pilot-ready in 90 days, NB-IoT native, DLMS/COSEM standard
- Revenue-share and white-label partnership models
- One discovery call to map the platform onto your reality
It's like finding a new revenue line
in your own grid
What a city-scale deployment of the Nova Platform is engineered to deliver, from the first cohort of connected meters to a fully commanded network.
Loss reduction engineered into year one: from 14.6% to 8.2% in our reference deployment model.
Prepaid tokens and mobile money close the gap between consumption and collection to near zero.
Connect, disconnect, tariff changes, and tokens, all delivered over the air to any meter on the network.
From last-gasp signal to restored feeder: detected, dispatched, and resolved before the first call.
Reference figures from the Nova Platform deployment model for a Djibouti City–scale grid.
The most expensive electrons in Africa
deserve a smarter grid
Djibouti City concentrates nearly all of the nation's electricity demand onto a single utility, a compact urban grid, and tariffs among the highest on the continent. That combination makes it one of the strongest smart metering business cases anywhere in the world, and the natural launch point for the Nova Platform.
of national consumption concentrated in the capital region.
per kWh, among Africa's highest average tariffs.
of supply imported via the Ethiopia interconnector, paid in hard currency.
national electricity access, with substantial growth headroom.
The economics are unforgiving. Roughly 80% of the nation's electricity is imported from Ethiopia, purchased in hard currency and resold at tariffs that already strain households and enterprises. Network studies place technical losses around 11% of energy delivered, with non-technical losses (theft, bypass, and unbilled consumption) stacking several points on top. At Djibouti's price levels, every percentage point of loss is a uniquely expensive hole in the national balance sheet.
Demand is accelerating, propelled by the port economy, logistics corridors, data infrastructure, and rapid urbanization. Yet the commercial backbone of the utility still runs on manual processes: physical meter reads, paper-driven dispute resolution, and disconnection crews in trucks. Meanwhile, roughly a third of the population remains without electricity access, constrained by connection costs and the utility's limited capacity to expand profitably.
Donor-funded smart meter pilots proved the hardware concept years ago. What has been missing is the intelligence layer: the platform that converts connected meters into recovered revenue, located losses, and a grid the operator can truly command. That layer is what we build.
How the Nova Platform answers
each constraint
Theft and unbilled consumption found only by chance become ranked, GPS-located loss zones, investigated the week they emerge, not years later.
Estimated bills and dispute queues retire. Every invoice traces to telemetry both sides can see, rebuilding trust on both sides of the meter.
Prepaid top-ups via D-Money convert to power in seconds. Disconnection and reconnection become a command, not a crew.
Feeder loading, voltage quality, and outage events stream into one operating picture. Capacity planning becomes daily intelligence.
Every new connection is cash-positive from its first token, making expansion to the unconnected third financially safe for the utility.
With ~80% of supply imported, every recovered kilowatt-hour is a measurable saving on the national balance sheet.
From analog grid to
commanded network
Losses localized
Energy-balance accounting converts an invisible loss average into a ranked list of fixable zones. Recovery starts in the first quarter.
96%+ collection rate
Prepaid-first metering and mobile money rails make revenue deterministic. Arrears age out of the system.
Truck rolls retired
Routine connect, disconnect, tariff, and token operations move over the air. Crews handle judgment work only.
Access grows safely
With collection engineered in, the utility extends the grid to unconnected households without extending its risk.
Donor-funded pilots proved the hardware concept years ago. What's been missing is the intelligence layer: the platform that converts connected meters into recovered revenue. That layer is what we build.
Let's build the grid
of tomorrow
Every layer of East Africa's energy ecosystem has a seat at this table
Built for every partner
in the power ecosystem
Whether you operate the grid, carry its data, regulate it, or finance it, the Nova Platform is designed to plug into your world and multiply what you already do best.
- Pilot-ready in 90 days, NB-IoT native, DLMS/COSEM standard
- Revenue-share and white-label partnership models
- One discovery call to map the platform onto your reality
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